The Southern Baptist Conventn, the largt Prottant nomatn the Uned Stat, wh over 16 ln members, has discrimated agast gay and lbian people for more than a quarter-century.
Contents:
- THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN PASS ROLUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE
- SBC ROLUTN CHALLENG CHRISTIANS WHO SELF-INTIFY AS GAY
THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN PASS ROLUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE
The Southern Baptist Conventn, the largt Prottant nomatn the Uned Stat, wh over 16 ln members, has discrimated agast gay and lbian people for more than a quarter-century. In a 1996 “Rolutn on a Christian Rponse to Homosexualy, ” the SBC clared that “even a sire to engage a homosexual relatnship is always sful, impure, gradg, shameful, unnatural, cent and perverted.
In the 2000 Baptist Fah and Msage statement, the SBC equat "homosexualy" wh adultery and pornography, clarg, “In the spir of Christ, Christians should oppose … all forms of sexual immoraly, cludg adultery, homosexualy and pornography. The SBC lls on s members to a “love the sner but hate the s” approach and affirms the possibily of reorientatn om same-sex attractn and supports “ex-gay” mistri. As the SBC webse stat: “Christians n, and should, mister to homosexuals a kd, yet firm manner.
The church should never turn s back on homosexuals who are searchg and seekg to heal the hurts wh their liv. Homosexualy is not a ‘valid alternative liftyle. The same remptn available to all sners is available to homosexuals.
SBC ROLUTN CHALLENG CHRISTIANS WHO SELF-INTIFY AS GAY
It lled on "Southern Baptists not only to stand agast same-sex unns but to monstrate our love for those practicg homosexualy by sharg wh them the fivg and transformg power of the gospel of J Christ (1 Corthians 6:9-11). In June 2010, a rolutn (On Homosexualy and the Uned Stat Milary) passed that stat: “we oppose changg current law to normalize the open prence of homosexuals the armed forc, and sist on keepg the fdg of Congrs that stas current law, which stat that even ‘the prence the armed forc’ of persons monstratg ‘a propensy or tent to engage homosexual acts’ creat ‘an unacceptable risk to... The Southern Baptist Conventn is now on rerd disuragg e of the term “gay Christian” to scribe believers who experience same-sex attractn but choose celibacy bee they believe the Bible perms sex only between a man and woman the ntext of marriage.
An SBC rolutn adopted this week Birmgham, Alabama, “On Sexualy and Personal Inty” addrs Christians who “have tried to affirm God’s sign for sexualy while embracg a personal inty as ‘gay Christian’ or a ‘sexual mory. The rolutn, drafted by a mtee, supersed a statement remend by msenger Steve Kern, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church Oklahoma Cy, opposg Revoice, a support group for “gay, lbian, bisexual, and other same-sex-attracted people who adhere to historic, Christian teachg about marriage and sexual exprsn. Denny Burk, a semary profsor and print of the Council on Biblil Manhood and Womanhood, said the rolutn passed by the nventn borrows language om the Nashville Statement, a claratn signed two years ago by numero Southern Baptist lears nyg, among other thgs, that “adoptg a homosexual or transgenr self-nceptn is nsistent wh God’s holy purpos creatn and remptn.